WhyNot X Bimhuis:
Music Meets Dance
18 December 2025

Miri-Lee dance & Nora Mulder piano
C’Cesirhe Sedney dance & Harald Austbo cello
Ali Zanad dance & Kypski turntables
Elise Richards dance & Jamie Peet drums

Thu 18 December
20:30
Bimhuis
Tickets via Bimhuis.nl

Four duets, each with a dancer and a musician, improvising freely. Almost all of them will perform with one another for the very first time. This could well be the start of wonderful new collaborations. And a compelling experience for the audience. Together with Bimhuis we have linked up these renowned performers. They have all developed their own unique musical and physical language.

Miri-Lee & Nora Mulder Miri Lee

Miri Lee is a performer and choreographer who has left a distinct mark on Amsterdam’s artistic landscape. She’s known for her fearless cross-disciplinary collaborations with leading figures in visual art, music, science, poetry, theater, and film. Now she will team up with pianist Nora Mulder, a renowned performer of contemporary classical and improvised music, and a creator of absurdist sound installations. She was awarded the Willem Breuker Prize in 2019.

C’Cesirhe Sedney & Harald Austbø

C’Cesirhe Sedney is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer and director at the intersection of dance and theater. His work accumulates dreams and the human psyche with a playful undertone, offering alternative value to their role. Harald Austbø is active in the Amsterdam jazz scene as a cello player and composer. He also works in (music) theatre with renowned companies such as Orkater, De Nwe Tijd and Via Berlin.

Ali Zanad & Kypski Alias

Zanad AKA Dimozi was born Baghdad and moved to The Netherlands at the age of thirteen. Before he became acquainted with dance, he was a footballer and freerunner. Now he has built up experience as an actor and dancer. Ali is one of the artistic directors of the MENSJA Foundation. Turntable expert Kypski became known as a sixfold Dutch scratching DJ champion. He toured all over the world with his previous band C-Mon & Kypski and many other greats. Currently he’s part of Joseph Bowie’s legendary formation Defunkt, among others.

Elise Richards & Jamie Peet

Choreographer and dancer Elise Richards has a background in hip-hop culture. In her work she is guided by storytelling and rhythm. Through her company, Osas Company, she aims to inspire and challenge young people. In recent years, Jamie Peet has proven himself as a jazz drummer for the new generation who does not eschew complexity and who embraces the music of his own time, including jazz and hip-hop.

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Workshop Elisa Zuppini: Disambiguation

22 October | 10:00 - 12:30
Theater Frascati, Amsterdam
Tickets: €15
Language: English
Level: Professionals
Tickets via Frascati 

As a part of the OFF VENUE program, WhyNot offers a workshop for professionals by Elisa Zuppini in Frascati about her fascinating movement practice. Read more about OFF VENUE here.

In this workshop, participants will be invited into the atmospheres of the night, post-clubbing states, and altered modes of presence, where anonymity, depersonalized embodiment, and heightened sensory awareness open emergent ways of perceiving relation and presence in movement. Drawing from Elisa Zuppini’s ensemble work "Disambiguation" - which premiered at Frascati Theater in May 2025 with fifteen dancers, coproduced by WhyNot - participants will be introduced to the principles of her movement practice of decentralized relational systems, imagining the body as a sensitive entity with redistributed control across multiple, movable centers.

After learning selected sequences from the choreography, they will be invited to re-compose and adapt the material through guided improvisations with the musical score of the piece. Together, participants will inhabit liminal and transitional spaces, where ambiguity becomes a generative force shaping tangible states of movement and collective presence.

This workshop is for professional dancers and people trained in movement. Please wear something comfortable (dancing is without shoes), and bring a water bottle or towel if you’d like.

WORKSHOP SOFIE KRAMER: SENSUAL BODY AWARENESS

Fri 17 Oct | 20:00-21:15
Dance Space Destiny, Rhoneweg 10, Amsterdam
Tickets: €10
Language: Dutch/English
Level: All Levels
Tickets via Frascati

Part of OFF VENUE. Read more about OFF VENUE here.

In this workshop, physical performer and pole dancer Sofie Kramer will take you on a journey to connect to your sensual side and sink deeper into your body. She combines her practice as a pole dancer with movement techniques based on meditation and Taoism, creating a sense of bodily awareness that is about letting go and acceptance rather than living up to societal expectations around sensuality. In this workshop, it is not about being sexy. This workshop takes the word "erotics" to a more spiritual level, where surrendering to and deeply focusing on the senses provokes an honest sensuality, liberating not only muscles and joints but certainly the mind too!

This workshops is open for everyone who is interested in exploring their body and movement. Please wear something comfortable (dancing is without shoes), and bring a water bottle or towel if you’d like.

Sofie will be performing herself during OFF VENUE.

WhyNot X Bimhuis:
17 September 2025

Alesya Dobysh & Max Frimhout X Maarten Vos

Dance interacting with innovative electronic music

Wednesday 17 September
Start 20:30
Tickets €18 - €21
Get your tickets here

In this longstanding collaboration with Bimhuis, we present interdisciplinary evenings where we bring musicians together with choreographers, performers, and dancers. This edition brings cellist and composer Maarten Vos to the stage. With his combination of cello and modular synthesizer, Vos explores the boundaries between acoustic and electronic sounds. He has presented his compositions at international venues and festivals such as Le Guess Who?, MUTEK, Sonár, Rewire, Paris Philharmonie, and Funkhaus Berlin. Vos regularly collaborates with other artists and musicians such as Colin Benders, Julianna Barwick, and Joep Beving, as well as fashion designer Iris van Herpen.

On behalf of WhyNot dancer and choreographer Alesya Dobysh and composer Max Frimout will be presenting Motus Sonus, an interdisciplinary experimental project that explores the interplay between movement, sound, and space, adapting each performance to the architectural and acoustic features of the venue and contributing guest artists. Motus Sonus will feature Moroccan choreographer Mehdi Dahkan, whose physically dynamic work draws from breakdance, parkour, and urban practices to explore personal and collective behavior shaped by contemporary Maghreb culture; and Xenia Sairento, a Paris-based experimental dancer who bridges urban forms and somatic research, known for redefining femininity within the electro dance community.

Check out this interview about Motus Sonus

CREDITS:

Maarten Vos: electronics/modulaire synthesizer

Motus Sonus:
Movement: Alesya Dobysh, Mehdi Dahkan, Xenia Sairento, Mohamed Bouriri
Sound: Max Frimout, Maarten Vos

Motus Sonus is produced by Bimhuis, WhyNot, and DansBrabant. 
From 2024 to 2026, Alesya is working as a PLANmaker at DansBrabant.

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WHYNOT X BIMHUIS:
MUSIC MEETS DANCE
26 JUNE 2025

SIMON BUS X CHAERIN IM
ROWAN VAN DEN BOOMEN X LORADENIZ
ELOY COJAL X MARC ALBERTO
EMIO GRECO X TOMOKO MUKAIYAMA

Dancers and musicians express the art of being in the moment, in four performances.

Thursday 26 June
Start 20:30
Tickets €18 - €21
Get your tickets here

Four duets, each with a dancer and a musician, improvising freely. This could well be the start of wonderful new collaborations. And a compelling experience for the audience. Together with Bimhuis we have linked up upcoming artists with renowned performers. They have all developed their own unique musical and physical language.

SIMON BUS X CHAERIN IM

With his inquisitive eye and hyper-flexible body, Simon Bus stretches ideas about dance. He started breakdancing at the age of twelve and became part of the international battle scene. He graduated as a visual artist and is now a core creator at DansBrabant. South Korean pianist Chaerin Im has quickly conquered her place in Dutch jazz in recent years. In 2024, NRC elected her Young Artist of the Year.

Simon Bus dance, Chaerin Im piano, keyboards

ROWAN VAN DEN BOOMEN X LORADENIZ

At a young age he started with breaking and popping and later at dance academy he discovered ballet and contemporary styles. Currently, Rowan van den Boomen seeks freedom through movement and other forms of expression, such as painting and fashion. Under the name Loradeniz, Deniz Omeroglu develops her own sonic world. As a classically trained pianist, sound designer and DJ, she blurs the boundaries between electronic, cinematic and experimental music.

Rowan van den Boomen dance, Loradeniz electronica, vocals

ELOY COJAL X M. ALBERTO

Eloy Cojal is a versatile dancer from Catalonia whose movements explore the boundaries of popping, breaking, and contemporary dance. After studying at ArtEZ University, he collaborated with renowned choreographers, toured with Shechter II, and received a nomination for Best Male Dancer. Equal parts saxophonist, poet, theatre maker and anti-capitalist street-essayist, M. Alberto seeks to dismantle colonial structures, performing with artists from both sides of the Atlantic.

Eloy Cojal dance, M. Alberto, alto- en bass saxophone, spoken word, electronica

EMIO GRECO X TOMOKO MUKAIYAMA

In addition to his work as a dancer and choreographer, Emio Greco is active in projects in which dance, science and technology meet. With Pieter C. Scholten he founded the dance company Emio Greco | PC, which grew into ICK Dans Amsterdam. The Japanese-Dutch pianist and artist Tomoko Mukaiyama is praised for her multimedia performances in which she embarks on the sensory adventure together with her audience.

Emio Greco dance, Tomoko Mukayama piano

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Club Mountain

Date: 17 April at 17:00 & 18:30
Location: Club Raum, Humberweg 3, 1043 AC Amsterdam

For centuries, people have used rituals to attune themselves to their environment, nature and the ecosystem in which they live. Planting is enhanced with rituals of hope, the good harvest is exuberantly celebrated and people connect with each other through dance and music.

In our own modern ecosystem of the city, many people meet in nightclubs, where they dance, move and celebrate life together. When they merge together into the music and the flow of the night, the sense of space and time disappears. The group then transforms into a collective and together they recreate the world on the dance floor.

Club Mountain is an interdisciplinary project in which elements of ancient ritual and the modern nightclub come together. The project reflects, investigates and poses open questions about how rituals and modern technologies can serve as a medium to travel between worlds and tap into the collective memory that is stored in our bodies and comes to life on the underground rhythm of the city by night.

Credits:

This project is part of an ongoing interdisciplinary research about ritual technologies with guest artists choreographer and director Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti (BO/BRA) and Light artist Zalán Szakács (RO/HU) with repetitor Matteus Moreira de Oliveria (BRA) and dance students (third year) from Expanded Contemporary Dance (ATD): Sarah Mary Bittar, Tim Brügger, Aleyna Demir, Lola Dupriez, Mélie Favre, Mandisa Gramelsberger, Sem Houmes, Naomi Katthagen, Pei Kuo, Hope Landu, Sára Mezei, Lucija Miletić, Elise Richards, Ditte Toppet, Rowan van den Boomen, San Wolteche

Production support: Dorothea Sinnema. Initiated by WhyNot Festival under the Ancient Future project, in collaboration with ECD - ATD, Club Raum and FIBER Festival.

OURSPACE

Friday Next: Future Love by Next Nature

Vrijdag 14 februari 2025, 17:00 - 22:00
Next Nature Museum, Eindhoven
Tickets €10 / €5 via Next Nature

We are proud to present our social performance bot OurSpace at Future Love, invited by Next Nature on Valentine's Day! It's a special night about the future of love, with performances, music and speeddates.

OurSpace is an initiative and production of Klasien van de Zandschulp, WhyNot, and James Bryan Graves. OurSpace is a participatory performance that zooms in on the virtual and the physical space between people, their online and offline identity and social encounters.

It is a quirky social experiment and performance that choreographs the bodies of participants using a chatbot in WhatsApp. The performance tests the boundaries of space in our hyperconnected world. It’s a productive way to reflect on the seemingly normalized things we do in virtual social networks like following, zooming and liking -- and to highlight the embodied experience of these media practices.

The audience is guided by an artificial chatbot on WhatsApp. This artificial companion is sharing stories and responding with assignments that translates online social habits into physical movements. These storylines can vary from simple actions “If you think somebody looks interesting, tap this person on the shoulder” to more intimate actions “Observe your new friend closely: smell them, feel them”.

Credits:

Choreography: Marjolein Vogels
Script: Klasien van de Zandschulp, WhyNot (Daisy Benz & Marjolein Vogels)
Technology: James Bryan Graves
Interaction Design: Klasien van de Zandschulp
Music: Mark Meeuwenoord
Graphic Design: Angela Lidderdale